Artifex Ghostscript: (CVE-2016-7978) Remote Code Execution
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
05/23/2017
03/19/2019
10/10/2018
01/08/2019
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in Ghostscript 9.20 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a reference leak in .setdevice.
Solution(s)
- ghostscript-upgrade-9_21
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